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Is Gullón Sugar free ZERO Choc chip cookies ultra-processed?

Chocolate chip cookies Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Gullón Sugar free ZERO Choc chip cookies

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 23 ingredients
  • 8 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed chocolate chip cookies

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

when flour, sugar free chocolate chips 25%, cocoa mass, sweetener (maltitol), cocoa butter, emusi (soya lecithin), cocoa powder, flavour, natural vanilla flavour, vegetable oil 17% (high oleic sunflowe oil), sweeteners (maltitol, isomalt), raising agents (sodium hydrogen carbonate, ammonium hydrogen carbonate), salt, flavours, an excessive consumption may produce laxative effects, keep cool and dry protect from sunlights

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503ii Ammonium hydrogen carbonate , E953 Isomalt , E965 Maltitol

As written on the pack

when flour, sugar free chocolate chips 25% [cocoa mass, sweetener (maltitol), cocoa butter, emusi, (soya lecithin), cocoa powder, flavour, natural vanilla flavour), vegetable oil (high oleic sunflowe oil) 17%, sweeteners (maltitol and isomalt), raising agents (sodium hydrogen carbonate, ammonium hydrogen carbonate), salt, flavours, may contain traces of nuts, milk and egg an excessive consumption may produce laxative effects, keep cool and dry protect from sunlights

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
  • E953 Isomalt Stabilisers are substances which make it possible to maintain the physico-chemical state of a foodstuff; stabilisers include substances which enable the maintenance of a homogenous dispersion of two or more immiscible substances in a foodstuff, substances which stabilise, retain or intensify an existing colour of a foodstuff and substances which increase the binding capacity of the food, including the formation of cross-links between proteins enabling the binding of food pieces into re-constituted food.
  • E965 Maltitol Maltitol is a sugar alcohol made from starch, used as a sweetener in "no added sugar" sweets and chocolate.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.
3 ingredients that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 50 chocolate chip cookies

From least to most processed, this one ranks 21st. 92% of the chocolate chip cookies here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 50 chocolate chip cookies, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8410376058116, last edited 5 April 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
  • NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.